an auxiliary radar for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport—other buildings and barracks transferred to the Red Rock Job Corps Center in 1978. In 1995, Benton was the backup air traffic control radar when the airport near Avoca needed data. After 2001 the FAA site became part of the Joint Surveillance System, and the "FPS-67B, now Common Air-Route Surveillance Radar (CARSR)" was used in a 2004 FAA test. In 2013, a new maintenance contract was issued for the "Qrc Arsr Hvac Pwr Project". Assignments Benton AFS and its USAF squadron were assigned to several larger units of Air Defense Command (Aerospace Defense Command after 1968), but after data transmission was automated in 1960, its radar tracks were provided to more than one Direction Center (e.g., "three air divisions simultaneously - 35th, 21st, and 34th Air Divisions" in September 1967): 503d Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 1 January 1951 26th Air Division, 6 February 1952 4710th Defense Wing, 10 February 1953 4709th Defense Wing, 30 June 1953 4707th Air Defense Wing, 8 July 1956 4622d Air Defense Wing, 18 October 1956 Boston Air Defense Sector, 8 January 1957 Syracuse Air Defense Sector, 15 August 1958 Boston Air Defense Sector, 4 September 1963 35th Air Division, 1 April 1966 21st Air Division, 19 November 1969 – 30 June 1975 References Federal Aviation Administration